Asmatullah Muawiya

Asmatullah Muawiya was the leader of the Punjabi Taliban and a spokesman for Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.

Biography
Asmatullah Muawiya became a spokesman for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militant group in Pakistan, and rose to become a leader of the Punjabi Taliban group. On 24 August 2013 he was stripped of his leadership because he welcomed peace talks with the government of Pakistan, but claimed that the shura did not have the capacity to remove him because he was the head of his own branch of the organization.